Seems like they didn’t have much to offer this year.
This one made me LOL…
The OS and Samsung UI take up over 8GB of the phone’s base storage space. In this day and age that’s unacceptable bloat. The base model has less than half of it’s advertised space.
But hey, apparently the gold color their CEO called a gimmick is not quite unthinkable. Their fourth color is going to be gold.
Honestly I was waiting for the S5. Been an iphone user for like 6 years now. Kinda tired of getting a new phone that’s the same as my past 2 phones lol but I don’t know if the S5 is gonna cause me to abort the iphone. Now if only the I6 was around the corner.
The iPhone 6 will be out in October… Announcement around the second week of June. They pretty much do this like clockwork now. I can say that given everything that supply chain orders are showing, holdout for the SIX.
Yea I know it was looking like October but if you could see my IP5 you would be ashamed. It’s all busted to hell and the body looks like it’s been in a blender. I have always been super careful with my phones and never had to worry about cases to much but I shattered this phone a few months after having it haha. It’s been a tank ever since though. I’m also getting tired of apples home buttons and on/off buttons failing. I have had 6 different iPhones and every single one of them has had problems with the buttons.
I ran my iPhone 5 for most of a full year naked and still got $320 trade in value for a common 16gb silver which was AT&T locked. But then again it didn’t have a cracked screen or obvious damage.
Much like iPhone, nothing innovative here. I’ll just keep my SGS4 and wait for the next big thing to come along.
The 5s has the only finger print scanner that actually works. Pretty big innovation.
I love it. An Android powered device comes out with an innovation that’s truly useful & Apple owners say it’s not a big deal because their beloved iPhone doesn’t have it. Then, just as soon as Apple marketing says it’s important… it suddenly is. The fingerprint scanner on the iPhone is no more useful than the one on the S5. Worthless. Just like the pulse reader on the S5. They seem neat-o but in the real world they won’t get used very often and likely will create more frustration then they will make your life better. Let me know when there’s some useful innovation.
This release has left me greatly underwhelmed. It seems to be just a upgraded GS4. No reason for me not to wait until September, when my contract is up, to see what’s worth upgrading from my GS3.
The fingerprint scanner on the 5S is actually pretty awesome. It works flawlessly and beats the crap out of unlocking with a code. I do not like the swipe from the S5 though. Unless they make it very general on fingerprints I don’t ever see it working well.
I’ve been using Touch ID since I got the 5S and think its a great addition because it does work. The Motorola phone that previously had a scanner didn’t work that well. By numerous accounts the S5’s scanner doesn’t work that well. So, yes, Apple did innovate with a scanner that works well and is easy to use.
Numerous tech writers have said negative things about the placement of the heart rate sensor.
Numerous tech writers have said negative things about the iPhone yet here we are 5 posts into a thread about the new S5 talking about them already.
Meh, I’m a little over a year into my 5, will just wait for the 6. Had enough of droids and probably won’t be back to them.
And? The S5’s scanner still doesn’t work.
Of course it doesn’t, because it’s an Android.
And the smart phone jihad has begun on yet another thread… Seriously, the sniping back and forth isn’t going to change anyone’s phone religion of choice. Acting like the people who come on the forum and then get butthurt when we tell them that the gun shop employee was wrong, and the Seals aren’t using Wyndham carbines, is beneath us all… Let’s not have the thread just fall apart.
Time will tell if the sensor on the S5 is as reliable as the iPhone 5S has proven to be after five months in the hands of consumers.
Meh…I still like my S4 and will not be changing anytime soon.
Swapping phones all the time is a pain in the butt.
-brickboy240